Hi ,
I have a dual boot set up on my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop , I have Windows Vista originally installed and i installed RHEL 5 a while ago they used to sit happily together.However After upgrading RHEL 5 from 5.3 to 5.5 yesterday and configuring grub to boot into Vista by default it refuses to do that and boots into RHEL 5 by default.
The laptop used to boot straight into vista but i thought i,d learn how grub works by configuring it, after the rhel5 upgrade.
But after changing the DEFAULT value from 0 to 1 and then back from 1 to 0 still grub only boots into RLinux RHEL 5 by default regardless.

Can someone help me please i need to make my laptop boot straight into Windows Vista by default and not RHEL 5

Any help would be greatly appreciated .I am sure this is an easy one for someone i am a GRUB newbie help please you gurus out there

This is what my grub.conf looks like
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-194.el5xen)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-194.el5
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5xen.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-194.el5PAE)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5PAE.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Your grub.conf file has two entries for Red Hat and vista is the third. Change the default to 2 in place of 1.

I would suggest you put a hash mark )()to the left of the line hiddenmenu at the top if you wish to see the menu on boot.

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Yancek,thanks very much i changed it and it works , pretty simple ..perhaps i should do more with grub , i had a different grub issue with a different machine but i will post that seperately thanks very much

one other odd thing you seam to have two different types of kernels installed
1) el5xen
2) el5PAE

xen and pae